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What’s signified by tense in sentence? (4)

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time

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'sentence?' is the definition.
(a prison sentence)

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(Other definitions for time that I've seen before include "Speech to close pub" , "Prison sentence (colloq.)" , "See 15" , "Procrastination is the thief of ." , "The fourth dimension?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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